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1. Introduction to Acids and bases (definition and characteristics, and Lab Acid/Base investigation)
After learning about the topic from several readings and videos students will:
Define acids and bases based on their physical and chemical characteristics.
Write acids and bases chemical formula and geometrical shape.
Working in the lab, students will:
Identify different substances (tomato juice, milk, soda, baking soda, egg, detergents…) into acids and bases based on the characters learned in the previous activity.
As small group students will reflect their understanding of the lesson through creating mindmap in MindMeister tool including:
At least four main branches
At least three sub-branches in each main branch.
Utilizing the features of MindMeister such as vides, links, notes, images, files.
Mind Mapping MindMiester
With the limited class time, students as small groups use MindMiester to summarize the lesson’s ideas and concepts.
As a kind of mindmapping, Mindmeister’s features allow students to cooperatively create, manage and share their mind map online and access them anytime, from anywhere.
Different from paper pencil mindmap, minsmeister support students to enrich their map with different resources such as videos, images, files, notes, tasks, and icons.
This digital mindmapping is more engaging for students since they can create customized maps with different color, themes, and fonts and edit them easily.
2. Acid/Base strength (Strong and weak Acids/Bases)
Categorizing acids and bases into strong acid/base based on their water dissociation.
To determine the strength of acids and bases, students conduct the electrical conductivity of solutions experiment.
At the Lab, students as small groups will:
Conduct the experiment on different substances.
Use camera to record or photo the experiment for each substance.
Use Brainshark tool to present their findings including:
Writing dissociation equations of the substances.
Category of each substance into strong or weak Acid/Base and why supported with appropriate video or photo.
presentation Prezi
Using prezi tool makes presentation very interactive and fun for students comparing with traditional presentation. Through adding pictures of the experiment in their prezi, students prove the results they found. Prezi presentation tool supports different learning styles, since it allows students to use fonts, pictures and video and manipulating images, shape and text. Therefore, students can create presentation that is richer in content and more attractive in design.
3. Acid Rain In this group project, students search and synthesis answers to the following questions:
What is acid rain?
How it is formed and its positive and negative environmental effects.
Students using Edmodo tool as a platform for collaborative group work to plan for the project, search for resources in the library, share information, discuss ideas and design their project. Students will be divided into three groups (A, B, C).
In this activity, Edmodo helps students to work cooperatively in their project anytime and from anywhere safely, especially this project requires more time beyond the class time.
Through Edmodo, students easily communicate to plan the project, share resources, discuss ideas, and design their project.
On the same time, teacher can monitor group work and give instate feedback that students might need. Working in Edmodo helps students save the amount of paper used in the classroom.
Teacher can share different resources related to the topic to help students easily find information. Also, teacher remind students about submission and deadlines.
4. Acid Rain Group Project final Product. Students use Bookmakers to create final product that synthesis their findings to the project questions. Bookmaker product including : Cover page (Title, names, year) Reference page (at least 4 recourses) At least 6 pages of content with supporting images, graphics, and statistics related to the topic.
Writing tools Flipsnak
Instead of submitting traditional research paper created in word document, students can use flipsnack that allows students to create attractive and easy browsing online flipping digital book. To design professional book, students can customize their book through adding graphics to the text, select color, book size, and type (wire bound and hard cover). This also, allows students to get feedback from more people other than the teacher through publishing it on the web like facebook and Twitter. This type of products engage students more and improve their creativity.
After learning about the topic from several readings and videos students will:
Working in the lab, students will:
- Identify different substances (tomato juice, milk, soda, baking soda, egg, detergents…) into acids and bases based on the characters learned in the previous activity.
As small group students will reflect their understanding of the lesson through creating mindmap in MindMeister tool including:- Categorizing acids and bases into strong acid/base based on their water dissociation.
- To determine the strength of acids and bases, students conduct the electrical conductivity of solutions experiment.
At the Lab, students as small groups will:Through adding pictures of the experiment in their prezi, students prove the results they found.
Prezi presentation tool supports different learning styles, since it allows students to use fonts, pictures and video and manipulating images, shape and text. Therefore, students can create presentation that is richer in content and more attractive in design.
In this group project, students search and synthesis answers to the following questions:
Students using Edmodo tool as a platform for collaborative group work to plan for the project, search for resources in the library, share information, discuss ideas and design their project.
Students will be divided into three groups (A, B, C).
Students use Bookmakers to create final product that synthesis their findings to the project questions. Bookmaker product including :
Cover page (Title, names, year)
Reference page (at least 4 recourses)
At least 6 pages of content with supporting images, graphics, and statistics related to the topic.
Flipsnak